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When managing your digital photos, there are three things you really should do: Make backups of your backups of your backups.  These are your photos, don't mess about here - make backups regularly and store one of your backups someplace remote. Use JPG for your file formats.  If you end up with a camera saving in some goofy format either convert to JPG or get a new camera.  JPG is like mp3

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At some point about half way through my career, 10 or so years ago, I started referring to myself as a technologist. Sure, I got the usual "what a geek" comments early on - I was the guy that fixed friend's computers and saved up for a horrifically expensive mobile phone when they first came out.  Yes, I found myself taking technology night classes at local Uni (pre-WWW, give me a break) and

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A few weeks ago I decided to leave my Mac OS X laptop in the rucksack for a few days and just use an iPad for everyday use as a test of the iPad's viability for typical daily use.  The work included some airplane travel and a visit to a remote office.  I also had an external Bluetooth keyboard with me in case I had to do a lot of heads-down writing. The following is an examination of why the

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I've recently been exposed to two vendors offering "cloud" and "SaaS" options to replace two in-house legacy enterprise/corporate (not customer facing production) systems. In this process, I connected some mental dots that there are really a few flavors of SaaS, and the distinction is quite important with respect to enterprise architecture. The two service offerings can be roughly thought of in

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Niall Wass and Tony McAlister of betfair recently published a summary of betfair's 6 hour outage on 12 March 2011.  What follows is a review of their analysis. Most of betfair's customers will have no idea what Niall and Tony are talking about.  "This [policy] should give maximum stability throughout a busy week that includes the Cheltenham Festival, cricket World Cup and Champions League

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Introduction A "trial" environment is a high risk production environment that sits within a low risk Enterprise environment. Circumstances that might drive you to set up a trial environment: Business has revenues derived from enterprise production systems it wants to protect through risk management, but... Business wants to move fast and be innovative, and... Business wants to work with third

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I use me.com's IMAP folders to file email as part of an inbox zero policy I inflict on myself.  I recently had to resume using Exchange 2010 based email, but unfortunately not (yet!) directly connected to Apple Mac OS X Mail.  To access the Exchange mail, I've elected to use Outlook inside a Windows 7 VM.  I then hooked in my me.com IMAP folders into Windows Outlook so the Exchange and me.com

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(Postnote 2011-03-05: Don't waste your time on the below.  Just go directly to gpgtools mail, read the instructions, and get on with it.  It's been updated to work with OS X 10.6 and Mail 4.4.  Just tested it, works great.) I am so not an expert on PGP, GNUPG (GNU Privacy Guard) or OS X's mail.app.  But what I can do is explain how I got the basics of PGP working with Mac mail and some resources

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If you've ever sailed with a bit of curiosity, you've learned about tell-tales.  Essentially they're the little flapping ribbons on a sail that help you know whether you're sail is working efficiently or not.  If they're flapping about all different directions, you're sail isn't doing much for you. Now imagine one sailing boat with one steering wheel, and 15 people tugging the wheel different

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Introduction A "hotsite" is a general term for unplanned downtime - a failing site, product, or feature that is having significant impact on revenue generation.  A problem is escalated to hotsite level when significant numbers of (potential) customers are affected and a business ability to earn money is significantly affected.  Hotsite handling may or may not be used if the problem is not under

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Introduction I use an Apple laptop hard disk as my primary (master) data storage device.  To provide interim backups while traveling, I use Apple's MobileMe iDisk for network backups to supplement primary backups only available to me when I'm at home. Having dabbled with iDisk for a few years, I have two key constraints for using iDisk: I don't always have a lot of bandwidth available (e.g., a

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For whatever reason, our installation of jspwiki (v2.8.2) decides to ignore or lose pages out of its index (hey, what do you want for free?!).  With our jspwiki hitting 2000 pages, search is the main tool to find pages. Unfortunately, I've taken to keeping my own links page to important pages just so I don't lose them as the search indexing seems to break regularly.  While a re-index solves the

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There were no shortage of interesting topics at QCon London 2010.  Although I'm writing in some depth about a few of them due to personal interest and/or applicability to Internet gambling, there are many others I'll highlight here briefly. Shared nothing architecture - Each node of a system is stand-alone and shares nothing with other nodes - Great horizontal scalability - Shared databases,

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Cloud computing and virtualization was a popular topic at QCon London 2010. Background/primer/proposition:Cloud marketing suggests that hardware and/or systems administration is now a commodity that you shouldn't have to think about too much and can safely outsource.  Just like TDD (Test Driven Development) decreases the need for QA, CI (Continuous Integration) with direct deployments into an

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Last week I had the good fortune to attend QCon London which bills itself as an "enterprise software development conference". I thought the conference struck a good balance between maybe 40% academic/futures/ideas from the ivory towers versus 60% practical, grunty software development from the trenches.  That of course varied by what sessions you attended as there were various tracks and

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Gibraltar has plenty of on-line gambling companies and there is almost always some form of related recruitment going on. Whether you want to make a fresh start in Southern Spain or just got made redundant, the following are some good starting points if you're interested in working in Gib.  While I've got an IT bias, none of the companies below specialize only in IT. (Please note I'm not

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This is a post for non-technical readers (particularly non-technical product and high level feature owners) to explain why technology is "so slow" to deliver your new products and features. Comparative baseline.  You need to ask yourself, "Why do I think something is taking too long?" What's my baseline, what am I comparing to when I think "slow"?  More often than not, I find that people are

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There is a website for the neighborhood I live in that is all in Spanish (cuartonparque.com).  So that's useful if your Spanish is good, which mine isn't.  Google's translate function is great, but I wanted an archive of the site both in Spanish and English in case the site disappeared or was substantially altered. wget is a great command line *nix utility to recursively download a website

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Introduction.  DBAs are an expensive resource.  Part of the art of IT management is to manage IT costs against revenue.  Here are the growth phases of businesses I've seen and how the DBA function evolves and specializes against changing revenues, risk tolerance, and work load. Phase 1 - Startup, limited cash, keep the burn rate down.  When a business first starts out and afford only a few

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The following is a sample agenda for a supplier review. Objectives for Review Agree a plan with supplier to solve key issues All ownership, processes and contact points well understood and up-to-date Understand where the supplier is going, their strategy and roadmap Areas to Consider What areas does the business want to see improved; what are the pain points with this supplier? Number of new

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Sometimes it's not clear to a non-technical consumer of a web site what is involved to change content, style, layout, and functionality that make up the website.  In particular you're interested in enabling websites to be built, updated and extended by non-technical staff.  This entry is about explaining the spectrum of possibilities  in change in each of these areas for non-technical users, for

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No rocket science here, just a quick entry on a very light way to manage a small and self-contained project team frequently receiving new and modified feature requests while building a new and unproven product.  Goals are minimal process, managing feature creep, and getting the new product into the hands of real customers. Assume the team is composed of:There are several stakeholders acting as

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Prologue Sure, all good managers and leaders develop a collection of Jedi mind tricks to create business value and further business objectives.  Unfortunately, bad managers are doing something similar, using their Sith mind tricks to further themselves and their agenda, at a sharp cost to the business and those around them. What are these anti-patterns of reasonable behavior, good management

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I've been using the Synology Cube Station CS407e as a home NAS for about a year now, and up until a few weeks ago it worked flawlessly. I'm only using it as a network attached media server, not all the other whizzy features it has. The setup: I have three different machines at various times coping and and moving files around on the box. Trying to be overly clever, I set up a user "write" on

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Project management fundamentals teach us that that project management was a trade-off between the trinity of:Schedule Scope (requirements) Resource (people, competency of people, and money) The three dimensions are in equilibrium and each dimension is proportional (inversely or directly) to the other two. Formulas like the Ideal Gas Law (PV=nRT) work well to simply communicate the basic

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When selecting a portal/CMS, there are business standard ways to select one: Formal RFI, RFP processes Formal reports from the likes of Butler and Garter Mesh requirements to features Cost Installation consultancy, on-going support provisions Top level Company/IT strategy considerations: In-house versus outsource Open-source vs commercial vs hybrid Technology stack (production support) and

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Had quite a discussion with NCC the other day about software escrows. The net result was that software escrows might as well be a dinosaur with respect to Internet gaming. Often in a contract you might require a vendor to escrow their software in case the vendor suddenly disappears. On the surface this seems sensible, but lets take a closer look. Reasons to not use an escrow service:How does

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Just a few real life stats from a number of UK and EU targeted sites from the month of June, 2009: Windows (XP+Vista) makes up 96% of users IE 6, 7, 8 make up 87% of users (14%, 55%, 18% respectively) Firefox is 11%, Safari at 1.6% (Stats approximate - usual web log analysis constraints)

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It's always fun to get down to the network protocol and packet level. One of the things I find frequently misunderstood is how IP port addressing works with respect to outbound firewalling. This comes up when considering how a gaming application can work within a corporate firewall that is blocking most outbound ports. First, the basics: IP is the network protocol. Basically, it deals with

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IntroductionThere is a lot of difference of opinion on what a portal is.  This is down to several common, conflicting definitions of portals, thinking that portals and CMSs are the same thing, and many different ways to actually build a web page. Closely related technology and terms will also be covered, along with some practical best practice recommendations. HistoryIn the mid to late 90s, the

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At least in the world of Internet Gambling, product management tends to have two parts to it: an operational side and a futures side.  I'll call these two roles "Product Manager" and "Product Operator".  As an organization grows these roles will tend to separate as each requires quite a different, and potentially conflicting, mindset. Product Manager - Product managers are responsible for the

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IntroductionA taxonomy provides a way to organize a number of items into groups to make them easier to talk about and compare. A taxonomy is driven by efficiency, item affinities, and logical cohesion. A UI/IA navigational structure is a taxonomy, but focused more on customer ease-of-use. They typically make simplifications and tailor an abstract taxonomy to specific user segments. This post is

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What does the CTO, CIO, IT Director, or VP of Technology do? There are many names, but what we're talking about is the person who owns all of technology for a business or an at least somewhat self-contained unit within a business. Of course this will vary a lot based on the size of the company and the company's raison d'être. Context #1. I work for an Internet services oriented business. Its

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1. Stay in close mental alignment with your CEO and other key strategy and opinion leaders in the business (they are "the business"!). Written strategies and project plans are too cumbersome at this level (they are useful for some across and most down management into the organization). Talk frequently with them - where is their head at today and is IT supporting them as best as possible at that

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Betfair’s Christian Hellmers sparked up the Betfair Plans Rumor Mill by mentioning how betfair could provide USD 50m in revenues for racetracks and horsemen (oh, and betfair as well!) by 2008 if it is allowed to operate in the USA. Let’s think about the statement a bit.There is no doubt that betting exchanges tend to re-vitalize what might otherwise be a flagging market. But where does that

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This post is about how Macau expats acquire temporary residency in Macau. It's a little out of left field compared to the usual tech and gambling posts. As igaming (ok, Internet Gambling) really picks up in Macau, hopefully some of you will find it useful. There are two common ways to live and work in Macau. The first way is to acquire a work permit (aka, "blue card"). This process takes 3

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It's probably worthwhile briefly mentioning my background so the readers of this blog might develop some belief that there is some credibility to what they're reading. I've been involved in online gambling for over five years, touching all types of products and functional areas in several igaming businesses. I've worked with casinos, bingo, poker, betting exchanges, and soft games. I've had

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A few weeks ago I posted on scalability, in particular high level systems and software scalability (please refer to this previous post if you don't understand some of the terms in this post). I want now to briefly touch on a business's ability to scale geographically and how this applies to software applications. This post therefore contains a few more areas to use as part of evaluating

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Sometimes you come across something that is so blatantly silly, you just have to highlight it. WSEX (World Sports Exchange) has announced that their internet poker room has gone rake free. Now as far as I know, most businesses and especially most gambling businesses are not generally run as non-profits. In fact, not charging customers a rake for a poker room means that a significant loss will

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Scalability is a question that comes up when evaluating businesses and their supporting technologies, especially in a high growth area like online gambling. This post will focus on the technical scalability of the technical systems of a business, particularly gaming delivery platforms in use by online gambling businesses. I won't be covering non-technical aspects of business scalability in this

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After a little research, I can speculate a little more about betfair and Softbank since I first wrote about them on 6 March. Two things have come to light, at least for me. First, Softbank is involved with Japanese Horse Racing. Second, Japanese Horse Racing is big business. These two points lead me to some new ideas and conclusions about the deal.Softbank does have some prior experience with

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Most companies in the internet gambling industry, at least those who don't have a business monopoly and/or aren’t willing to operate highly illegally, hope for liberalization of government policies. In some ways, China and the Asia Pacific gambling market is similar to what was happening in the USA and offshore Caribbean operators, with China where the USA was at in the mid-late 90s. By

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I'm pretty sure betfair has indicated this publicly - its primary profits on the exchange side are driven by horse racing. Two moves acknowledge this strategy. Most recently betfair has been courting a betting license in South Africa. Unknown to me, "...betting in SA was entirely focused on horse-racing, which was not found elsewhere in the world.". This news comes on the heels of betfair's

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I know the cards are face down in betfair's fixed odds poker game, but come on, a patent for having the cards played face up? I hope Zone4Play scrutinized betfair's game as possible prior art for their patent. technorati tags: Gambling, BettingExchange

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One thing I’ve never come across is a single page or slide that organizes all major forms of online gambling into a useful taxonomy. Why bother with a taxonomy? Among other things, it forms a convenient way to quickly group products to be able to talk about shared attributes and efficiencies. So here one is, first draft:PvH: Player versus House betting (Fixed Odds Betting; House sets/takes

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Everyone who follows it is up to speed on betfair and their recent licensing in Australia. However, Betfair corporate and business affairs director Andrew Twaits has been paraphrased as saying that “the core function of the business was technology and the Technopark centre would not be a call centre, which was a common misconception.”Next, factor in that the Economic Development Minister,

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The most useful technology I've come across recently is flock. Flock is a derivative of the Mozilla/Firefox browser. Flock's feature twist is that it allows greater integration into a growing number of online collaborative services (an aspect of the so called Web 2.0). It's not so much flock's greatness (flock is certainly good anyway), its that it has opened the door for me to new online

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I am debating a switch of my (not so old) blog from wordpress to blogspot/blogger. The main reason is that after playing a bit with each, I feel I have more control over content and layout with blogspot.I've only briefly examined and used both, so my debate thus far isn't highly considered or scientific. Summarizing my experience thus far: - Use wordpress.com if you are not a power user and will

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While installating SuSE 10.0 Linux on an IBM Laptop X31, after installation and then at first boot, I received a GRUB error 18.My first effort was to reinstall SuSE Linux. Same problem. While researching the GRUB error, I noted several entries that discussed a problem with older versions of a BIOS being used with HDDs that were too big (more than 1GB). Given that the hardware (all stock)

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Since the Google “Pack” was announced, there has been a general criticism about its utility. Was it folly on Google’s part to make and release the pack? I think not.Assume that Google is going toe to toe with Microsoft. As Google inexorably builds the core competencies required to do this, it must build up the ability to build and release software to the public. Google started with being

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A quick and simple solution… If companies like Party Gaming/Poker were serious about cutting out automated/robot play, why not insert a captcha function (word verification required) every so many games?Captcha is used by portals like Yahoo, email sites like Yahoo, and domain registrants like godaddy to block automated account creation. It is the phrase you read from a “warped” graphic

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